This morning on wsj.com, journalist Kelsey Hubbard asked me what lessons are to be learned from Stan O’Neal’s departure from Merrill Lynch as coaching points for those in the corner office or who aspire to be in the corner office. Here is my reply, given a few minutes to write it down. And some thoughts [...]
Friday, November 30, 2007
For those who aspire to the corner office, there are important lessons to be learned from what has been revealed in the debacle at Merrill Lynch. A week ago, it was revealed that O’Neal’s response to mega losses in sub-prime products was to fire the execs he had put in place and driven to take [...]
Countless more ordinary people of equal talent never developed the leadership core required to run the show. Why not?
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
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